Uncles Quotes - Page 12

• I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

  Brian Bonsall

  Kids, Home, Thinking

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• China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.

  Hugh Sidey

  Talking, Favorite Uncle, Lovely

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• The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Team, Sunday

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• It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

  Laura Bush

  Father, Boys, Men

  "Laura Bush's New Goal". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 2, 2007.

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• If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.

  Robert Barron

  Mother, Cousin, Aunt

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• I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, West, Temples

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

  Hyder Akbar

  Baptism, Ambush

  "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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• I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

  Aerin Lauder

  Summer, Children, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.

  James Magnussen

  Cousin, Brother, Father

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• The Olympics is a huge deal, and there's such an adrenaline rush, but I am one of those people that finds every little victory in life extremely satisfying - the day I got married, the day I moved into my house, the first car I bought, becoming an uncle. The little victories in life really keep you going, and none of those are any less special than the Olympic team.

  Jonathan Horton

  Team, People, Car

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fit, Cromwell

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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• When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I had to play the left-hand part with two hands, because my hands was so little. Then as I grew up and I learned how to play the left-hand part with one hand, she showed me how to play the right-hand part, and et cetera. My Uncle Joe showed me how to play a little bit different boogie stuff. I had people in my family that was professional musicians, but I just wasn't interested in what they did. I wasn't very open-minded to a lot of music that I'd be more open to today.

  Dr. John

  Kids, Aunt, Hands

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.

  Sophy Burnham

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.18, Penguin

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

  Sophy Burnham

  Children, Book, House

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• I'm that crazy-ass drunk uncle that nobody wants to invite to the holidays and birthdays.

  Mark McGrath

  Crazy, Holiday, Drunk

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• My uncle used to love me, but she died.

  Roger Miller

  Used, Explanation, Died

  Song: My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died, Album: Words and Music

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• Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

  Chris Burke

  Brother, Son, Law

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• Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Family, Fashion, Stress

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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• I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

  Arthur Miller

  Father, Men, Air

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

  Aaron Dontez Yates

  Growing Up, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Girl, Sweet, America

  Source: collider.com

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• I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Song, Aunt

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Taken, Humor

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• I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  Song: Ironic, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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